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Where are Brisbane people going for dark skies these days?
This forum used to have loads of new moon dark sky parties / groups etc? what happened?
I'm living in Elimbah these days, so my skies aren't terrible, but the unfortunate thing, is that in my 600m long street, local council saw fit to install no less than 5 street lights, and as I'm on a corner block, I have one NNE of the best setup spot, one ESE & one SSE.
Certainly, its manageable, and I can still clearly see the milky way and some of the dark lanes etc, but I've noticed that unfiltered images are quite heavily affected by the glow from these lights...
So - Where do people go to get dark skies?
I have a van with a solar panel, a 100 AH deep cycle battery and a power inverter, so I can go out and run the mount/cameras/computer off van power, no issues...
I always enjoyed the company at the few places we all regularly met up back in the day...
Thoughts?
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